Emergent U.S. Literatures: From Multiculturalism to Cosmopolitanism in the Late Twentieth Century

Emergent U.S. Literatures introduces readers to the foundational writers and texts produced by four literary traditions associated with late-twentieth-century US multiculturalism. Examining writing by Native Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, and gay and lesbian Americans after 1968, Cyrus R. K. Patell compares and historicizes what might be characterized as the minority literatures within “U.S. minority literature.”

Drawing on recent theories of cosmopolitanism, Patell present...